iPhone OS 3.2 Features

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 | #Tags: Apple, ipad, iPhone, iphone 3.2

Curse the iPad but it would still be a Big success.

iPhone OS 3.2 contains support for video calling has now been confirmed. There are hooks to accept and decline a video conference, flip a video feed (which suggests a front-facing camera) and — most importantly — run the video call in either full screen mode or in just a portion of the screen.

This means a you can video chat and work on something else, and isn’t that multitasking already ?

We’re definitely starting to get the impression that Apple didn’t tell us everything there is to know about the iPad in the Launch event — and we’re even more curious to find out what iPhone OS 4.0 will look like when it arrives.

iPhone OS 3.2 comes with a bunch of features which look like clear support for iPad.

File downloads and local storage in the browser,
much richer text support for apps, the ability to selectively draw to external displays (using the VGA or component adapters, we’d imagine)
location-aware ads in Maps and possibly other programs that use the Maps API, file upload ability in Safari, a modifiable cut / copy / paste menu, and, most interestingly, prototype support for a “handwriting keyboard.”
CoreGraphics to PDF API for sure, printer API is being prototyped
Spell checker with multiple dictionaries and user-added entries. Spell checker in text fields and web views using AppleSpell
- multiple languages
- grammar checking (English-only so far)
- address book integration
- user added words
- SDK access
- Included dictionaries: Apple Dictionary, New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, Shogakukan Daijisen, Shogakukan Progressive English-Japanese Japanese-English Dictionary, and Shogakukan Ruigo Reikai Jiten (may also be used for a Dictionary app perhaps?)
USB Host support or expanded Bluetooth support
- PTP support for transferring images.
Much richer text API including low-level access to font data and highlevel support for drawing formatted text.
Ability for applications to modify the standard cut/copy/paste menu